Bon dia!
I confirm the point about the moms in hug cars. We have the same species here. Same arguments: high driving position, safety, bla,bla,bla...
I have the big luck to live at only 2 Km from my working place
. So I normally go to work in my bicycle or on foot. I live in a town with roughly 10.000 inhabitant, so nearly everybody who is working in my same industrial park lives between 1 and 3 km from the working place. But I'm nearly the only person in the entire park that not goes there by car. The others are the teenagers not older enough to get the driving licence (18 years in Spain). One worker, one car. Hundreds of cars running, only to cover 4 km per day... And I know that each of this persons can give me a handful of reasons to use the car in such a small run... Strange think our advanced society...
Perhaps it sound stupid but I think that little things like that causes our western world to lose momentum.